Medal 1914-1918 (WW I) named to Major G.H. Wilson, 75th Battalion, CEF Major George Hudson Wilson, Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) was the Medical Officer of the 75th Battalion, CEF. He was 47 years old at the time of enlistment on 30 March 1915. He had previously served in the 6th Field Battery Artillery during the North West Rebellion of 1885. He was not killed during the Great War. He would have been too old for service in WW II. CEF Attestation attached. The 75th Battalion (Mississauga), CEF was an infantry battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Great War. The 75th Battalion was authorized on 10 July 1915 and embarked for Great Britain on 29 March 1916. It disembarked in France on 12 August 1916, where it fought as part of the 11th Infantry Brigade, 4th Canadian Division in France and Flanders until the end of the war. The battalion saw their first action in the trenches in Belgium in August 1916. Within the month, the 75th Battalion was at the Somme and fought with great distinction in the battles at Regina trench and Desire trench. In December, the 75th had been moved to Vimy Ridge where they with the rest of the Canadian Army dug in and waited until the great assault on 9 April 1917. On the night of 1 March 1917, a large phosgene gas raid was undertaken in which the Commanding Officer, Lt Col Beckett was killed.